J10: Coleman Documentation III

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Devin {http://macadocious.blogspot.com/}
Jessica {http://jklinedesign200.blogspot.com/}
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Zach {http://dsgnproberg.blogspot.com/}

Journal08 & Journal09

Woo-hoo! We did it!
~My team presented a lamp called the fire-fLITE by Coleman Indoors for kids. Overall the project was a blast. I enjoyed working with my group to think of ideas for the project. We had some pretty awesome ideas, and some not so great ones but the overall experience was really fun and interesting. Although we may not have looked organized all of the time, we were able to put everyone's thoughts into our project, which made the whole thing run smoothly. Personally I think I work better alone, which was a challenge I had to try to overcome through the experience. I think I was able to do this and I think we came up with a really neat idea.
~I helped our group by finalizing the power point, drawing pictures of our ideas and also writing down all of our ideas. Although I may not be the best artist in the world, I still like to draw so I knew I would be able to help in that aspect. Plus its the part of the project where we actually saw our ideas on paper which was really exciting. I also love putting power-points together and making them look sweet! I think I did a good job of keeping our group organized. I also kept all of our paper work to scan for my teammates so they would have something for their Journal entries.
~I could have listened better to all of my teammates and given some of them more responsibility. I think if I had done this we would have been finished much faster with the project because everyone could have been working on something at the same time.
~But I am still happy with the outcome and I stick behind our product 100%. I only wish we could have done more projects like this but maybe on a smaller scale.

CR10: The End

~I was really excited to take this class because I knew I would love it. I was never the type to jump for joy over a math or science class, so I knew this would be a great break from the normal stuff. Plus after our final Coleman for the Home project, I realized I could actually see myself doing this (industrial design) as a living.
~I enjoyed having this blog because I pretty much do everything on my computer anyway so it was alot easier not having to worry about keeping a bunch of papers. Plus I was able to turn things in early, which was a big help when I have a million other projects going on for other classes.
~The class was not entirely what I thought it would be. On the first day you handed out cards telling us it would be for deciding our groups. Because of this I thought we would be doing a lot more group projects then we actually did. I was somewhat disappointed by this, but I guess you have to learn the process and rules of design somewhere.

~Lastly, I wish you would have commented more on our work. I mean sometimes I thought I did a great job with something, but points were taken off and I did not know why. It's not a real biggy seeing as I did pretty well in this class, but I just felt confused sometimes.

Thanks for a great class!